Everything is shiny when it’s new.

Ah, the magic sheen of 2016. The opportunity for a clean slate. Like when you just mopped the floors and you could eat off them. New Christmas gifts and socks that seem so exciting. Here in the opening shots of 2016, everything has that new car smell.

This is our big chance to have this year be different!! To take on those new habits and… probably do the same thing we did last year. Doesn’t it seem like that’s what always happens?

We get all fired up for the latest new new. And then the shine fades, the novelty wears off, and it’s yet another “I could have, but I didn’t.”

But for now, 2016 still has its shine for me, and I’m going to make the most of it.